ANCIENT EGYPT In Egypt, Mesopotamia, ideas were written in hieroglyphs.Hieroglyphs are picturelike symbols.Some pictures stand for ideas or things.For instance, two legs mean “ go.”Egyptians used hieroglyphs because they needed a way of keeping track of the kingdom’s growing health.Egyptians first started writing on clay and stone.Then, they found a more convenient writing surface for writing.This writing is called papyrus. Papyrus is an early form of paper made from a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta. The meaning of ancient Egypt’s hieroglyphic writing was lost after the A.D. 400s. Then, in 1799 a solider digging a fort near the Nile found a large black stone with 3 different types of writing.The top had hieroglyphs, themiddle had an Egyptian script called demofic, and the bottom had Greek letters. This stone was called Rosetta Stone because it was found in a city near the Nile.The three texts all had the same meaning.It was not an easy task figuring this out, but a guy named Jean Francois Champollin accomplished this task.
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ANCIENT EGYPTIn Egypt, Mesopotamia, ideas were written in hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs are picturelike symbols. Some pictures stand for ideas or things. For instance, two legs mean “ go.” Egyptians used hieroglyphs because they needed a way of keeping track of the kingdom’s growing health. Egyptians first started writing on clay and stone. Then, they found a more convenient writing surface for writing. This writing is called papyrus. Papyrus is an early form of paper made from a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta.
The meaning of ancient Egypt’s hieroglyphic writing was lost after the A.D. 400s. Then, in 1799 a solider digging a fort near the Nile found a large black stone with 3 different types of writing. The top had hieroglyphs, the middle had an Egyptian script called demofic, and the bottom had Greek letters. This stone was called Rosetta Stone because it was found in a city near the Nile. The three texts all had the same meaning. It was not an easy task figuring this out, but a guy named Jean Francois Champollin accomplished this task.
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